This is the first installment of two videos that are designed to show you how to make an awesome static home page using Wordpress and Thesis. This video will show you how to use only Wordpress with a dash of Thesis to create a very simple, yet effective, static homepage. This is useful for those of you who are not primarily bloggers and desire to, perhaps, showcase a product or service. In essence, you are simply creating a page in Wordpress, using Thesis to determine the text of the home nav menu item, and moving the blog to another part of your site.
It is important to note that although the nav menu will say “Home” for the page you choose as the static homepage, the actual page name is determined by what you call it in Wordpress.
Again, this is a very simple technique for those of you wishing to simply make a static homepage. This is also the first step to creating a custom page template. So, if you are looking to do more custom work, you will still need to watch this video first.
Remember to Get Thesis and take your blogging to a new level of efficiency and professionalism.
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Hey Matt! Thanks for the tutorial. It was clear and professional. Nice Job!
Thank you very much for you videos, after watching just two of them its helped me a ton!
Just wanted to say I have learned a lot from the videos you post. I really appreciate the information. I am comfortable with computers but css and php takes a little getting used too
Two things.
1) I get no sound on this video. I do on all the others so not sure what is happening. I am watching it in Firefox if that makes any difference.
2) I notice you don’t have Openhooks installed. For new people I think it makes a huge difference in being able to find where things go. Your lesson on moving the nav menu involved copying your one line of code and pasting it in one box on open hooks.
Great blog. keep up the great work.
LOL when I posted the comment the page reloaded and now the video is playing with sound. I had reloaded it a couple of times and still no sound.
Got to love computers.
Your a lifesaver thanks!
Awesome video, but it cuts out about 2/3rds of the way through. Thanks for the hard work man.
Scratch that just needed to refresh the page, sorry
Matt, have you ever seen anyone build a complete static website from thesis? Something like 100+ pages with possibly a blog attached?
Ryan
@Ryan
Have I seen it? I don’t think I have. But it would be very easy to accomplish, unless you wanted multiple custom page templates. In that case, it would be very hard
Matt,
Great job on your demo. It was very well done. Easy to follow, straight to the point, good audio and a nice clear voice and slideshow for your video. I am a very newbie to wordpress, thesis and css code. Because of you and a host of other Thesis fans, we are able to getting our feet wet in the web dev part of the internet. The site is coming along and it should be launched just in time for St Valentines day, a perfect time to launch a wedding ceremony site.
Hi & thanks for the video!
I too am looking to create a static website with the possibility of a future blog. I will only have 6-10 pages so Thesis seems as though it may work. One thing that you wrote concerned me though…
“It is important to note that although the nav menu will say “Home” for the page you choose as the static homepage, the actual page name is determined by what you call it in Wordpress.”
Are you saying that the Home page url would not be mydomain.com but rather mydomain.com/whatever?
I will also need a custom header. Would you happen to have a video about that too?
Thanks
@Alan
I suppose it will technically exist as both.